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Curiosity and Creative Experimentation Among Psychiatrists in India

represent a rough continuum. They range from a bold and confident psychiatrist who uses various techniques including ritual healing to another who yearns to incorporate more Indian philosophy and psychology ... to include more talk therapy and/or draw in South Asian disciplines of the mind from classical philosophy to Buddhism to ayurvedic medicine to contemporary ritual healing practices. The diverging

The Dreamwork of the Symptom: Reading Structural Racism and Family History in a Drug Addiction

A key tenet of critical health research is that individual symptoms must be considered in light of the social and political contexts that shape or, in some cases, produce them. Precisely how ... Leon's narrative-what I term the surface of the symptom-and to the formal mechanisms by which latent contents (such as the social, the political, and the personal) are transformed into the manifest form of

“We Need Other Human Beings in Order to be Human”: Examining the Indigenous Philosophy of Umunthu and Strengthening Mental Health Interventions

village health workers within a mental health task-shifting initiative and reveal how the ancient philosophy of Umunthu with its values of interconnectedness, inclusion and inter-relationships informs and ... wealth and the preservation of the life of another human being, then one should opt for the preservation of life. The third saying is a principle deeply embedded in traditional African political philosophy

THE SUBVERSION OF ANCIENT THOUGHT: STRAUSS’S INTERPRETATION OF THE MODERN PHILOSOPHIC PROJECT

political order through the abandonment of traditional esotericism and a radical politicization of philosophy, involves an ideal of rationalization of human life that is ultimately problematic for both ... University of São João del-Rei Department of Philosophy São João del-Rei - M. G. Brazil Abstract The problem of modernity occupies a central place in the political reflection carried out by Leo

Intimacy, Anonymity, and “Care with Nothing in the Way” on an Abortion Hotline

outside the State’s scrutiny of abortion provision, the Hotline offers its volunteers a way to practice abortion care that aligns with their professional and political commitments and that distances them ... commitments and  that distances them from the direct  harm they see caused by the political, financial, and bureaucratic constraints of their clinical work. By delineating the structure of this new regime of

SymptomSpeak: Women’s Struggle for History and Health in Kosovo

realities, and social politics? In what ways might the language of pain act on and transform the world by shaping and changing socio-political agendas? I explored these questions among women in Kosovo and ... Anthropology 25 ( 1 ): 19 - 43 . 2011 What Is Deleuzean Political Philosophy . Cr´ıtica Contempora´nea . Revista De Teor´ıa Pol´ıtica 1 : 115 - 126 . 2011 Economies of Abandonment: Social Belonging and Endurance

Colony before Party: The Ethnic Origins of Sioux County's Political Tradition

control of the county for themselves. The Golden Jubilee Pageant told the story of Sioux County’s nativity from the perspective of those who won the county’s early battles for political and community

Crusader for Democracy: The Political Life of William Allen White

Review of: "Crusader for Democracy: The Political Life of William Allen White, ... three counties limits our appreciation of the movement’s diversity in these three states and of the ways different groups of midwestern women understood and worked for political equality. Despite these

BOOK REVIEW: GUYER, PAUL. Kant on the Rationality of Morality (Cambridge University Press, 2019, 73p. )

I discuss Paul Guyer’s contribution to the Cambridge Elements: The Philosophy of Immanuel Kant series. The author argues that Kant derives the fundamental principle and the object of morality from ... the result of the application of some constructive procedure? The latter position was famously defended by John Rawls, who labeled the method employed in his political philosophy Kantian

A relação entre ética e direito na filosofia política de Kant

This article discusses the relationship between law and ethics in Kantian political philosophy. Unlike the dominant interpretation, I attempt to show that, in order for politics to achieve its goals ... present. Two theses are defended here: first, that there is no gap between the political theses of the 1780s and those of the 1790s regarding an abandonment of the need for good will in the field of

The Colonial Clinic in Conflict: Towards a Medical History of the Palestinian Great Revolt, 1936–1939

quo, they could serve other, more radical ends too. To highlight the complexity of the political positioning of medical workers and healthcare, this article focuses on the town of Hebron during the ... range of colonial and missionary archival sources. The first part of the article uses the case study of an Egyptian medical doctor who took up political office in the town in moments of crisis to show how

BOOK REVIEW: LINNEBO, Ø., Philosophy of Mathematics (Princeton Universisty Press, 2017, 216, pages)

We review Linnebo's Philosophy of Mathematics, briefly describing the content of the book.Keywords : Philosophy of Mathematics; Ontology; Epistemology; Set Theory. ...  ALBARELLI2  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3646-7553 1University of Campinas. Department of Philosophyv. Brazil. 2University of Campinas. Department of Philosophy. Brazil. LINNEBO, Ø

Killing Butler's Bloodhounds: An Act of Political Violence by Iowa Soldiers in Reconstruction South Carolina

sanitized the struggle. For conclusions about the soldiers’ political opinions, this work relies primarily on the wartime correspondence of soldiers and media published before, during, and immediately after

A relação entre ética e direito na filosofia política de Kant

This article discusses the relationship between law and ethics in Kantian political philosophy. Unlike the dominant interpretation, I attempt to show that, in order for politics to achieve its goals ... present. Two theses are defended here: first, that there is no gap between the political theses of the 1780s and those of the 1790s regarding an abandonment of the need for good will in the field of

The Most Complete Political Machine Ever Known: The North's Union Leagues and the American Civil Wa

Review of: “The Most Complete Political Machine Ever Known”: The North’s Union Leagues and the American Civil War, by Paul Taylor ... personal interests. The public-spirited political culture of the Leagues, Taylor argues, shared much with fraternal organizations of the antebellum years, such as the Masons. The book traces the first Union

PASSIONS AND EVIL IN KANT'S PHILOSOPHY

In this paper, I aim at relating passions to evil in Kant's philosophy. I begin by explaining the difference between affects and passions in the textAnthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View. Kant ... ethical community as a way to overcome the evil, which goes beyond political and anthropological solutions suggested by Kant. 1 I will use the following abbreviations: G for Groundwork , TL for Doctrine of

Teacher Strike! Public Education and the Making of a New American Political Order

Review of: "Teacher Strike! Public Education and the Making of a New American Political Order, ... Political Order John W. McKerley 0 0 University of Iowa , USA Masthead Logo Recommended Citation - ence, heartbreak, and tragic notoriety from the early twentieth century to the present against the

‘A German Whore and no Money at that’: Insanity and the Moral and Political Economies of German South West Africa

witness, I will explore the ways in which illness narratives can reveal the complex moral and political economies of the colonial world. ... political economies of the colonial world. KeywordsMental illness Narratives Feminist ethics Gender Moral and political economies German South West Africa  Introduction When we rave, we rave against the

‘No-One Can Tell a Story Better than the One Who Lived It’: Reworking Constructions of Childhood and Trauma Through the Arts in Rwanda

childhood and trauma are based on bio-psychological frameworks emanating from the Global North, often at odds with the historical, political, economic, social and cultural contexts in which interventions are ... insufficient consideration of the specificity of the origins of such frameworks (Young 1995) nor of the historical, political, economic, social and cultural contexts in which they are enacted (Bracken 2002). We

PASSIONS AND EVIL IN KANT'S PHILOSOPHY

passions to evil in Kant's philosophy. I begin by explaining the difference between affects and passions in the textAnthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View. Kant claims that both affects and passions are ... the degrees of the propensity to evil in theReligion. I analyze the idea of an ethical community as a way to overcome the evil, which goes beyond political and anthropological solutions suggested by